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... , of tutors seemingly as stupid and pedantic as ever set fairly to sleep intellects of a less persevering order than his . He was reckoned by his mother , probably with truth , exceedingly obstinate : mein Starrkopf , ' B 2 JOSEPH II . 3.
... , of tutors seemingly as stupid and pedantic as ever set fairly to sleep intellects of a less persevering order than his . He was reckoned by his mother , probably with truth , exceedingly obstinate : mein Starrkopf , ' B 2 JOSEPH II . 3.
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... probably beyond human strength , of cutting the knot which so many able hands , both before and since him , have failed to untie . His scheme was no less than to consolidate all his dominions into one homogeneous whole ; to abolish all ...
... probably beyond human strength , of cutting the knot which so many able hands , both before and since him , have failed to untie . His scheme was no less than to consolidate all his dominions into one homogeneous whole ; to abolish all ...
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... probably be the worst mode of appoint- ment of all ; that popular election , unless surrounded by safeguards difficult to devise , and impossible to main- tain , would be very little better ; that nomination by a high functionary ...
... probably be the worst mode of appoint- ment of all ; that popular election , unless surrounded by safeguards difficult to devise , and impossible to main- tain , would be very little better ; that nomination by a high functionary ...
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... probably this is an exaggeration ) to have increased one- fourth . But whatever may have been the amount of good which he effected at home , the world at large owes him a greater debt of gratitude . While dying a martyr to over - zeal ...
... probably this is an exaggeration ) to have increased one- fourth . But whatever may have been the amount of good which he effected at home , the world at large owes him a greater debt of gratitude . While dying a martyr to over - zeal ...
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... Probably there was some truth in the charge . But how far greater things did she on the whole achieve with her subjects , thus gently led , than those of her predecessors and successors who em- ployed on them in such abundance the more ...
... Probably there was some truth in the charge . But how far greater things did she on the whole achieve with her subjects , thus gently led , than those of her predecessors and successors who em- ployed on them in such abundance the more ...
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